The MOUD Plus Pilot: Counseling and Peer Support to Support Retention for Medically Complex Patients With Opioid Use Disorder Seen In Primary Care

"In addition to treatment as usual (clinic visits for primary care and MOUD), patients will meet with clinic based addictions counselor who provides 1) rapport building ; 2) brief counseling interventions (e.g. motivational interviewing, change talk/solutions based therapy, harm reduction counseling); 3) referral to community resources. Patients will also be referred to community based peer recovery services who are credentialed and trained to meet the person where they are in the community and provide advocacy and support for client directed goals."

Treatment as usual arm consists of primary care clinical appointments with prescribers who treat medical issues and are trained to diagnosis and treat OUD using low threshold prescribing approaches.